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title: 'But you, friend frog, you are not one of these wicked people, I am… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'But you, friend frog, you are not one of these wicked people, I am sure?' asked the queen. Who acts: you, I, friend frog. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 74

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'But you, friend frog, you are not one of these wicked people, I am sure?' asked the queen.

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**Who acts:** you, I, friend frog · **What happens:** frog, not be, be, ask · **To what, where:** one, queen

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, friend frog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3027:27:74
# text = 'But you, friend frog, you are not one of these wicked people, I am sure?' asked the queen.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
22	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frog** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | you | one |  |  |  | of this wicked people | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | friend frog |  | the queen |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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